Example sentences of "[vb base] for [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malcolm 's return brought him a straight push for three and a ninth Test hundred , but he immediately drove half-heartedly at Hemmings and gave Gooch a simple catch at mid-on . |
| 2 | Every year we buy his work for more than the year before and every year we sell for more than the year before 1991 being no exception . |
| 3 | It is difficult to come to terms with the fact that I mean it 's people that you 've worked with for a week , at a time and I mean for three and a half years every second week you 're working with that guys in a confined space , you get to know them really well . |
| 4 | The p&l account for 1990/91 and the balance sheet at 30 June 1991 have been restated to reflect these changes , as has the five-year record . |
| 5 | Other costs seem equally hard to cut ( staff costs account for less than a third of the total ) . |
| 6 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 7 | Although recorded annually there is no regular winter population , and birds rarely remain for more than a few days except in severe winters , when considerable influxes occur . |
| 8 | Such comparison can not justify that performance — nothing can justify leaving 20,000 properties empty for more than a year . |
| 9 | For schemes where the benefit is X months benefit for each and every claim the payments should be suspended during periods when the claimant is in temporary employment . |
| 10 | Roll them in salt and bake for one and a half hours ( or until they ‘ give ’ when pressed ) in a moderately hot oven ( 190 ° , 375 ° F , Gas Mark 5 ) . |
| 11 | The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment . |
| 12 | Further , such a view provides a nice parallel with semantics : for just as a semantic theory is concerned , say , with the recursive assignment of truth conditions to well-formed formulae , so pragmatics is concerned with the recursive assignment of appropriateness conditions to the same set of sentences with their semantic interpretations In other words , a pragmatic theory should in principle predict for each and every well-formed sentence of a language , on a particular semantic reading , the set of contexts in which it would be appropriate . |
| 13 | I have to say that I know for definite that the force at that time only possessed two shields , er we kept one shield in the South of the county at and one shield North of the county and and hence that is why I went to the headquarters in the morning . |
| 14 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 15 | We now know for certain that the Theobalds are doubtful , that Percy and Lois Hollis will ‘ do their best ’ , and we have had a late flash that Poppy Winterton thinks she has picked up a mystery virus . |
| 16 | The identities of chemical units that normally exist for less than a microsecond are important clues to how reactions take place . |
| 17 | In semelparous forms , which breed only once , there is often a sudden loss of function after reproduction ; adult mayflies live for less than a week , and male Pacific salmon show catastrophic senescence after their single breeding attempt . |
| 18 | Before you settle for less than the genuine article , compare the price . |
| 19 | If your symptoms persist for more than a few days , then contact your doctor for advice . |
| 20 | Call your doctor for advice if symptoms persist for more than a few days . |
| 21 | If your symptoms persist for more than a few days , then contact your doctor for advice . |
| 22 | Call you doctor for advice if symptoms persist for more than a few days . |
| 23 | There is no doubt that this will mean compulsory Sunday work for little or no premium payment . |